Don’t call them drones: RAF launches charm offensive for ‘unmanned aircraft’

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Don’t call them drones: RAF launches charm offensive for ‘unmanned aircraft’ - Home News - UK - The Independent: 
"“remotely piloted air systems” as the military prefer to call them – have been operating out of RAF Waddington since April. Except they are not really operating out of Waddington at all – they are in Afghanistan.
They are flown from a beige metal cabin slightly smaller than a shipping container, in which are two drone “cockpits”. The makeshift building is housed in a vast aircraft hanger, separated from the rest of the space by an 8ft-high barbed wire fence. Outside the hanger is a runway – but the pilots who operate the drones will never use it.
Inside, the cabins only vaguely resemble a typical aircraft flight deck. As you walk through the door, immediately in front of you is a row of computer monitors and keyboards. At the first sits an intelligence analyst – the other two stations with “Made in the USA” stickers on their screens are empty. No-one will say what they’re for."